Buggy Whips [was]Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[Rude 66]

>
>          You know, this thread has been cracking me up in some ways.  It
> never ceases to amaze me just how conservative musicians can be.

>          "Don't use something new, because 40 years ago so-and-so used
> something else."
>

on the contrary. i have laptops, firewire cards, all the vst synbths and
what not here. i test new stuff for magazines. i get a lot of new synths
here before they're even released and write about them. come up with
something new and interesting and i'm your man.

what always amazes me is how everyone is happy to throw out some perfectly
good technology and follow some new fad without properly investigating if it
doesn't have any drawbacks. that goes from vinyl-cd, analogue-digital
keyboards to taperecorders-computers and digital-analogue mixing desks. now
there's evben people who declare in all seriousness that mp3 is a perfectlky
good sound quality.
and then 10 years later, someone finds out that hey, guess what: that old
technology did something we're all missing now, and everyone runs back again
and all the vintage equipemnt that couldn't be given away a few years ago
are the prized collectors items now.

>          40 years ago, the Beatles used a 4 track deck to record on
because
> that was the state of the art then.  I can imagine them in their studio
asking:
>
>          "Gee, should we use this four track?....after all, Jan and Dean
> used a mono-recorder to record the "Little old Lady From Pasadena" and
look
> how good that turned out!"

heh.. maybe they did..;-)

the whole point was that you can indeed do all this bouncing and overdubbing
because it';s all people did in the 70's. yeah, it was because they had to,
but it's not like 'gee, let's not do that because it sounds like shit'.


>          Don't be intimidated by new technology.  Grab it by the
> horns.  Hell, you might actually discover you can make innovative sound
> with innovative technology.


see above.  ;-)

r./